Eternal Daughter
{{Short description|2002 video game}}
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{{for|the film|The Eternal Daughter}}
{{Infobox video game
|title= Eternal Daughter
|image= Image:Eternal Daughter title screen.gif
|caption=
|publisher= Blackeye Software
|designer= Derek Yu
Jon Perry
|composer= David Saulesco
|series=
|engine= Multimedia Fusion
|released= June 21, 2002
|genre= Action-adventure
|modes= Single-player
|platforms= Microsoft Windows
}}
Eternal Daughter is a freeware 2D action-adventure game created by indie developers Derek Yu and Jon Perry and released on June 21, 2002, under the Blackeye Software label.{{cite web|title=Derek Yu: Games |url=http://www.derekyu.com/games.html |access-date=2007-09-16}}
Plot
The introduction shows the Dungaga, an imperial industrialized race, conquering the more spiritual Lorian race. The protagonist, Mia, is the daughter of the Lorian priestess and an unknown father. Like the rest of her people, she is enslaved to do menial labor under the supervision of her half-brother Hume. As she sees her Dungaga stepfather Gar hit her mother, she manifests a light-based magic that she uses to strike down Gar. At her mother's advice, she flees the village.
In her travels, Mia meets the enigmatic lizardlike Shulin, the slime-based Grodol warriors, a familiar baby dragon named Elanduru, and several Dungaga dissidents. It is revealed that the Dungaga are controlled by the three sons of the dark god Baphomet, who wish to summon him into the world. After defeating the three sons, Mia must rally the free people of the world and obtain the blessing of the five gods, in order to strike out into Baphomet's realm and defeat him.
Gameplay
Eternal Daughter is considered a metroidvania, where the player explores an open world, with certain areas unreachable until they acquire a useful skill or item.{{Cite web |title=Eternal Daughter |url=http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/eternal-daughter/ |access-date=2022-12-31 |website=Hardcore Gaming 101 |language=en-US}} Its gameplay is based on a classic video game style: side-scrolling platform action, but with added features such as secondary weapons and growth elements that are otherwise common in the genre of role-playing games. Items found throughout the game increase the strength of the player character's weapon, or the player's maximum number of health points. Also, as the game progresses, the player gains new abilities that can be used to explore areas of the game that were previously unreachable, progressively "unlocking" new locations within the game world.
Music
A large part of the music was composed by Swedish video game composer David Saulesco. Like the game itself, the score uses a number of influences from famous video game soundtracks, most notably Final Fantasy VII.{{cite web |title=Unsung Prodigy: David Saulesco's Eternal Daughter (Review) |url=http://www.originalsoundversion.com/unsung-prodigy-david-saulescos-eternal-daughter-review |date=October 2011 |author=Patrick Gann |publisher=Original Sound Version |access-date=27 April 2012}} Eternal Daughter was Saulesco's first video game soundtrack, produced when he was 16 years old. The soundtrack was released on Saulesco's Bandcamp under the Creative Commons license CC by-nc-sa 3.0 on January 11, 2011.David Saulesco, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120213082122/http://withaknife.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-daughter-original-soundtrack Eternal Daughter Original Soundtrack] (archived)[http://opengameart.org/content/eternal-daughter-original-soundtrack eternal-daughter-original-soundtrack] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917205318/http://opengameart.org/content/eternal-daughter-original-soundtrack |date=2016-09-17 }} on opengameart.org
Reception
Home of the Underdogs praised Eternal Daughter for its well-designed and smoothly animated characters, precise platform engine, and addictive nonlinear gameplay.{{cite web|url=http://www.homeoftheunderdogs.net/game.php?id=3604|title=Eternal Daughter|work=Home of the Underdogs|author=Underdogs|access-date=2009-09-12}} 1UP highlighted the game's unique visual style and level of polish, not usually seen in freeware games.{{cite web|last=Sharkey|first=Scott|title=Freeloader vol. 2: Eternal Daughter|publisher=1UP.com|date=2004-06-30|url=http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3130176|access-date=2007-09-16|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927205715/http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3130176|archive-date=2007-09-27}} Both reviews commented on Eternal Daughter
References
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External links
- [https://archive.today/20130117135216/http://withaknife.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-daughter-original-soundtrack?pk=9 Eternal Daughter original soundtrack]
Category:Creative Commons-licensed video games
Category:Single-player video games
Category:Video games designed by Derek Yu
Category:Video games developed in the United States
Category:Video games featuring female protagonists